Albert B. Kao Contact Information Princeton University Guyot Hall 106A Princeton, NJ 08544 USA Voice: (661) 363-3872 E-mail: [email protected] Web: www.princeton.edu/~akao Education Princeton University, Princeton, New Jersey USA Ph.D., Ecology and Evolutionary Biology, expected September 2014 Title: Social influence and collective intelligence in animal groups Advisor: Iain D. Couzin M.A., Ecology and Evolutionary Biology, May 2011 Harvard University, Cambridge, Massachusetts USA A.B., Honors in Physics, magna cum laude, June 2007 Biophysics emphasis; cumulative GPA: 3.73. Honors and Awards NSF Doctoral Dissertation Improvement Grant ($14075) (2012-2014) NSF Graduate Research Fellowship (2010-2014) Weissman International Internship Fellowship (Harvard) (2006) Herschel Smith Harvard Summer Undergraduate Research Fellowship (2005) Research Positions Princeton University Princeton, New Jersey (2009-2014) Ph.D. Graduate Student Department of Ecology and Evolutionary Biology Advisor: Iain D. Couzin Palmer Station Anvers Island, Antarctica (2007-2008) Research Assistant Advisors: Langdon Quetin, Robin Ross Publications Kao AB, Berdahl A, Lutz MJ, Giam X, Hartnett AT, Couzin ID (2014) Individual-level rules governing social information use and the wisdom of crowds in humans, in prep. Kao AB, Couzin ID (2014) Decision accuracy in complex environments is often maximized by small group sizes, in review at Proceedings of the Royal Society B. Kao AB, Miller N, Torney CJ, Hartnett A, Couzin ID (2014) Collective learning and optimal consensus in social animal groups, in revision at PLoS Computational Biology. Strandburg-Peshkin A, Twomey CR, Bode NW, Kao AB, Katz Y, Ioannou CC, Rosenthal SB, Torney CJ, Wu HS, Levin SA, Couzin ID (2013) Visual sensory networks and effective information transfer in animal groups. Current Biology 23:R709-R711. Albert B. Kao Page 2 Publications Continued Swain DT, Leonard NE, Couzin ID, Kao A, Sepulchre RJ (2008) Alternating spatial patterns for coordinated group motion. Proceedings of the 46th IEEE Conference on Decision and Control, 2925-2930. Gabel CV, Gabel H, Pavlichin D, Kao A, Clark DA, Samuel ADT (2007) Neural circuits mediate electrosensory behavior in Caenorhabditis elegans. Journal of Neuroscience 27:7586-7596. Selected Presentations Kao AB, Miller N, Torney CJ, Hartnett A, Couzin ID (2014) Collective learning and optimal consensus in social animal groups. Society for Integrative and Comparative Biology Annual Meeting. Austin, TX. January 4, 2014. Kao AB (2013) Individual-level rules governing social information use and the wisdom of the crowds in humans. Princeton Research Symposium. Princeton, NJ. October 20, 2013. Teaching Experience Princeton University Princeton, New Jersey Teaching Assistant Integrative Dynamics of Animal Behavior (Fall 2011) Teaching Assistant The Biology of Organisms (Fall 2009) Undergraduate Research Advising Princeton, New Jersey Lauren Song, Princeton University (2013 - 2014) Thesis title: The role of weighted voting in the wisdom of crowds Outreach Activities Hopewell, New Jersey Judge at Hopewell Elementary School Science Fair (2010, 2012)
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